Question Wide screen version of Buffy?

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Is there a wider screen version of Buffy. I just got the box set that was on sale at Amazon. All of the seasons are full screen and 1:33:1 ratio. But when I watch on Netflix starting with season 4 you get more of an Hd or wide screen fill. But I can not find dvd's of this. Does any one know where I can find this version of the dvd's? Or even if they are out there. I figure Netflix has to get them from somewhere. Thanks in advance. 🙂
 
I don't think any of the dvd's are in widescreen format. All of mine are in FF Also, I think the one's on Netflix are also FF
 
Yeahh, over here in the UK they're available in widescreen from season 4. 🙂
 
That's right. I have both, US version and UK version, and the have different screens.
 
You can get them in wide screen, but I read the show wasn't made to be in wide screen and it causes a lot of errors. Like seeing camera men standing around or when a character walks away you can see him stop and stand still at the edge of the screen.

Even in normal viewing you sometimes see it. Like the camera man fallowing Buffy and Faith down Summers stairs and the big lights in the graveyard in season 5 in the middle of a scene where Riley is fighting.

I say stick with the normal mode xD
 
Joss said (in a commentary?) stick with the normal mode too, that they weren't filmed for widescreen and that they don't carry across too well. Each shot was designed and framed to be viewed on a TV screen so widescreen doesn't enhance it at all.
I have some of each and they have a few out of shot moments but not many. In the UK the book type packaging with the cardboard page sleeves for each disk is widescreen and the plastic open out box is TV screen. EDIT nope forget i said that

there's an interview here (the whole thing is interesting and runs to ten pages)
http://ie.movies.ign.com/articles/425/425492p10.html

where Joss says:
IGNFF: Did it surprise you the reaction that the lack of widescreen for Buffy season four on DVD got here in the U.S.?

WHEDON: People were upset, right? I haven't seen the season four package ... it contains a disclaimer from me as to why it's not in widescreen, that I wrote. It's on it, it comes with it. It's not a widescreen show. We shot it in a TV ratio, and I am very, very specific with the way I frame things. To arbitrarily throw – and I love widescreen, but Buffy was never a widescreen show. It was an intimate, TV-shaped show. To arbitrarily throw wider borders on it, to make it more cinematic when I very specifically framed it. Think of "The Body" – the episode "The Body"...

IGNFF: Right, which I've seen in widescreen and full frame...

WHEDON: How could you have seen it in widescreen?

IGNFF: The U.K. sets are in widescreen.

WHEDON: Good. See, that is not the way I framed it. That's not the way it was meant to be seen, and therefore that's not the way I shot it. I'm preserving what I shot. The DVD is there to preserve what we made, for eternity. What we made, very specifically, was a certain shape. So I'm sure there'll be widescreen copies and there'll be arguments about what's better, but I'm not interested in – and I mean, I love widescreen. I'm a widescreen fanatic, when something's wide. When it's not, then I want to see it the way it was meant to be seen.

IGNFF: Were you not consulted for the U.K. sets?

WHEDON: No, I was not. Buffy was never widescreen. Angel is, Firefly was – and was not aired that way. That'll be nice, that it can be shown the way it was meant to be seen. For me, Buffy is a different animal.
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The widescreen on my Buffy DVD's start at Season 4

My Angel DVD's widescreen start at Season 3 but strangely stop a Season 5, am I the only one?
 
the german dvds are also widescreen in the later seasons (starting s4). but i dont think its that bad if the show was actual filmed in widescreen. the fraiming might not be the way its soupposed to be, but there are worse screen format changings.

for example if the show was shot in 4:3 and they crop away the top and bottom to fit it in a widescreen box.
or, even worse, if they show is filmed in widescreen, and the distributers in germany decide to cut away 20% of the frame to avoid black stripes on top and the bottom when you watch it on an oldschool 4:3 screen...
i have monk season 1-7 which was butchered that way..... sometimes you hear somebody talkig who isnt even in the frame anymore, that is absolutely annoying.


but back to the buffy issue, i did a screencap of S04E01 at 15 minutes, the brick wall should be perfect to compare the widescreen to the normal version. could sbdy plz check if the 4:3 is the same hight than the widescreen? not that they used the methode i mentioned above too...


http://img827.imageshack.us/i/unbenanntax.jpg/
 
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